[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15450]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING DR. HARLON CRIMM

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Harlon Crimm, who 
last week announced his retirement as president of Chattahoochee 
Technical College.
  In the past 24 years, Dr. Crimm's contributions to Chattahoochee Tech 
have been profound. He quadrupled enrollment, making Chattahoochee the 
largest technical institution in the State of Georgia. He oversaw the 
college's accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and 
Schools. He instilled a sense of mission and pride in the institution, 
helping it gain national prestige.
  But Harlon has been molding Georgia's young minds for nearly half a 
century. He began his career as a high school teacher in Mississippi, 
later becoming the principal of Lockheed Elementary School in Marietta 
and director of personnel for Marietta City Schools. My four children 
attended Marietta, and they benefited greatly from their exposure to 
Dr. Crimm.
  Now in retirement, Dr. Crimm will be able to spend more time with his 
wife, Jo Ann, a retired Ph.D. educator, and his children and 
grandchildren.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that you join me in thanking Dr. Harlon Crimm for 
his years of service educating Georgia's young minds. In fact, Dr. 
Crimm eloquently summed up his own work when he referred to his past 44 
years in education not as a job or a career, but as a calling.

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